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Nursery Week 26 — Underwater Life

Skills & curriculum alignment
Skills & activity types:
  • fine motor
  • early numeracy
  • literacy / phonics
  • art
  • science observation
  • cognitive reasoning
  • tracing
  • writing
  • counting
  • drawing
  • other

A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Underwater Life, introducing ocean plants and animals, survival adaptations, marine conservation, tracing letter Vv, counting and writing number 10, and a jumping frog craft.

What children learn

  • Identify plants and animals that live underwater and imitate their movement.
  • Explore how underwater organisms find food, grow, and survive.
  • Describe special features of selected creatures and ways to protect underwater habitats.
  • Recognise underwater occupations, Vv, and the symbol and value of number 10.

Key activities

  • Creating a sealed underwater scene in a ziplock bag
  • Balancing paper plates while discussing underwater survival
  • Making a frog representation while exploring special adaptations
  • Comparing clean and polluted underwater scenes and repurposed materials
  • Drawing people who work underwater and discussing their jobs

You’ll need

underwater pictures and videos, ziplock bags and blue colour, water, miniature underwater plants and animals, paper plates, frog and leaf cut-outs, paper strips and glue, clean and polluted habitat images, reused materials, letter Vv cards, number 10 cards and counting sets

Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy

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